Hi Community,
Slack project notifications are officially out of their all-or-nothing era!
A lot of the feedback we’ve heard over time pointed to the same pain point: project notifications were too rigid. Some of you wanted to choose which updates showed up in channel notifications, some wanted status updates to land in Slack, and others wanted comments to come through too.
We’ve received many comments in threads like Limit Notifications in Slack when Project Linked and Reducing/Customise Asana Notifications in Slack, Status updates to Slack, all surfacing versions of that same ask.
Now, you can set up and manage project notifications directly in Asana and choose exactly what gets sent to Slack.
Here’s what’s new:
- Set up project notifications from Project Settings in Asana instead of managing everything only from Slack or Teams
- Connect a project to one or more Slack channels
- Choose which notification types each connected channel receives, including:
- comments
- status updates
- task additions
- task completions
- assignee changes
- due date changes
- field changes
- Give stakeholders the updates they actually want, without flooding a channel with everything
A few helpful notes:
- Project admins and editors can set up, edit, and remove these notifications in Asana
- For private Slack channels, the Asana Slackbot needs to be added before the channel can be selected
- This update is focused on Slack for now
Why this matters:
This makes it a lot easier to keep the right people informed in the tools they already use, whether that means sending new request notifications to an intake channel, posting project status updates to a stakeholder space, or celebrating completed work with the team in real time.
And it closes a long-running gap in the experience. Instead of choosing between too much noise or no visibility at all, teams now have a lot more control over how project updates show up in their communication channels.
Looking ahead, there’s still room to make this experience even easier to discover and manage, but this launch is a big step toward giving teams more control where they need it most.
If you were one of the people who weighed in on any of the feedback threads above, thank you. Your feedback helped shape this one.
Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to share your thoughts and questions in the comments.
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